All our Courses and Diplomas at Pitman Training have been developed to give you practical hands-on experience, so that you can put your skills in to practice, as soon as you've completed the course. With courses, seminars and diplomas designed for specific careers, and workplace requirements, we're sure there's an option to suit you.

Types of Training

Personal development allows you to develop your skills and qualities to reach your career goals and aspirations. Maximise your potential by ensuring you maintain a clear development path.

If you're looking to progress your career, refresh your skills or simply want to learn something new, our courses, diplomas and seminars will help you gain valuable practical experience that is instantly transferable to the workplace.

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All our Courses and Diplomas at Pitman Training have been developed to give you practical hands-on experience, so that you can put your skills in to practice, as soon as you've completed the course. With courses, seminars and diplomas designed for specific careers, and workplace requirements, we're sure there's an option to suit you.

Our Centres

Are you looking for your closest learning centre? With around 100 locations available you should find a place to study that's close to you. We're not only based in the UK and Republic of Ireland but internationally as well.

If we don't have a location that's near to you, then you may want to consider our distance learning option.

All our Courses and Diplomas at Pitman Training have been developed to give you practical hands-on experience, so that you can put your skills in to practice, as soon as you've completed the course. With courses, seminars and diplomas designed for specific careers, and workplace requirements, we're sure there's an option to suit you.

Types of Training

Personal development allows you to develop your skills and qualities to reach your career goals and aspirations. Maximise your potential by ensuring you maintain a clear development path.

If you're looking to progress your career, refresh your skills or simply want to learn something new, our courses, diplomas and seminars will help you gain valuable practical experience that is instantly transferable to the workplace.

Learn English

All our Courses and Diplomas at Pitman Training have been developed to give you practical hands-on experience, so that you can put your skills in to practice, as soon as you've completed the course. With courses, seminars and diplomas designed for specific careers, and workplace requirements, we're sure there's an option to suit you.

Our Centres

Are you looking for your closest learning centre? With around 100 locations available you should find a place to study that's close to you. We're not only based in the UK and Republic of Ireland but internationally as well.

If we don't have a location that's near to you, then you may want to consider our distance learning option.

Marketing Assistant Diploma

This Diploma has been developed to give you the skills you need to work in a specialist marketing or PR agency, in-house for a company with its own marketing department or take on marketing and PR responsibilities.

Is this for you?

Our Marketing Assistant Diploma has been developed to give you the skills you need to work in a specialist marketing or PR agency, in-house for a company with its own marketing department or take on marketing and PR responsibilities.

About this diploma

The practical skills employers are seeking

The world of marketing is highly competitive and the number of applicants looking to break through into this fast moving industry is always high. So if you want to stand out and get the job, you’ll have to prove you’ve got the practical skills and knowledge required.

Every business needs loyal customers to buy or use their services in order to succeed. Therefore so the role of marketing is to strategically develop the most engaging propositions and the right method of communication to generate a response. Our Marketing Assistant Diploma has been developed to give you the skills you need to work in a specialist marketing agency, in-house for a company with its own marketing department or take on marketing responsibilities. You’ll learn about product life cycles, marketing plans, using social networks as a marketing tool, and mobile marketing along with great keyboard skills, effective business communication and how to master the widely used Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

What will you get in return?

A Pitman Training Diploma is one of the most prestigious courses you can complete from one of the most highly regarded training organisations across the world. Businesses throughout the UK recognise the Pitman Training name as a sign that you have been trained to the very highest level. So with your Marketing Assistant Diploma, you’ll have world-class skills to get a highly valued, well paid job that requires marketing and PR skills.

Aims and Objectives

Get a great job and succeed

Our Marketing Assistant Diploma is designed to give you a broad understanding of the principles involved in each area, along with superior IT skills to take on even the most challenging of tasks.

Courses Included

There are twelve core courses. In addition to the courses shown below you can also choose any four of the following social media courses: - Social Media Strategy, LinkedIn, SEO, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Video, Blogging, Pinterest or Instagram, all with a business focus.

Marketing Essentials

Over four lessons you’ll cover topics such as understanding what a marketing plan is, how to carry out appropriate research, how websites are designed to market a company, effective advertising and the four P’s of marketing products.

Excel

Microsoft Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. This course is suitable for beginner to intermediate level. Over 10 self-paced lessons you’ll learn how to format your spreadsheet to best display your information, handle simple and complex formulas, insert charts, learn how to insert functions such as IFERROR and much much more.

alternative Excel Expert

Our Excel Expert level course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to use this popular spreadsheet programme to an advanced level. You can choose whether you’d like to study 2013 or 2010 and over a series of self-paced lessons you’ll learn how to perform tasks such as conditional formatting, recording and running macros, working with pivot tables and using statistical functions.

Outlook

This flexible study Outlook course takes you through everything you need to use this popular email system as a work tool, from navigation and views through contacts and appointments, to tasks and folders.

PowerPoint

Our PowerPoint training course will help you get to grips with this comprehensive presentation software. Flexible to study, you can choose the version of Microsoft Office you wish to study on; either 2013 or 2010.

alternative InDesign CC

Marketing Principles and Practices

This course complements our ‘Marketing Mix’ course and offers an overview of this important discipline, as well as detail on core principles. This will help you become confident in understanding the real function and nature of marketing.

Pre-Requisites

There are no pre-requisites required.

Finance Options

Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: –

Self-Funded:

Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;

You could opt to pay upfront.

Company Funded:

Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.